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<ul><li>The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) will be a non-departmental independent
public body and will be established with the passing of the Trade Bill. Before that
happens, and to provide certainty to UK businesses that they will not be exposed to
injury from unfair trade practices, the Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate
has been temporarily established within DIT to make assessments and recommendations
in a respect of a trade remedy measure.</li><li>There are currently (23<sup>rd</sup>
July 2019) 104 staff working for Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate and these
will transfer to the TRA once it has been established.</li></ul>

<p>The following figures relate to the operational budget of the Trade Remedies Investigation
Directorate (TRID):</p><p> </p><p>- For the year 2018/2019 TRID had a budget £7.3m
which equated to 1.7% of the Department’s overall budget.</p><p> </p><p>- For the
year 2019/2020 TRID has a budget of £11.9m which equates to 2.3% of the Department’s
overall budget</p><p> </p><p>Please note that any costs relating to occupancy and
IT infrastructure are provided by centralised services and the Department does not
operate an internal charging regime to reallocate these costs to the business units.</p>

<p>UK Export Finance (UKEF)’s mission is to ensure no viable UK export fails for lack
of finance or insurance, while operating at no net cost to the taxpayer. UKEF helps
UK companies win export contracts by providing attractive financing terms to their
buyers, fulfil contracts by supporting working capital loans, and get paid by insuring
against buyer default. For this reason, this response has interpreted the request
for the proportion of UKEF <em>spend</em> as the proportion of UKEF <em>support</em>,
that being the share of total maximum liability UKEF provided for exports relating
to renewables in low and middle-income countries in each of the last three years.</p><p>UKEF
classifies countries as per the World Bank classification system, where countries
are divided into four income categories – low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income.
For this reason, the response has interpreted ‘developing economies’ to include countries
with either a low, lower-middle and upper-middle income classification.</p><p> </p><p>The
share of support UK Export Finance (UKEF) provided for exports relating to renewables
in low and middle-income countries can be found in the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FY</p></td><td><p>Share
of maximum liability which went to renewables projects in low and middle-income countries,
%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>.66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>.04%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>UKEF publishes details of the support it provides in its Annual Report and
Accounts.</p>

<p>For the last 2 years funding for TAP has remained at £6.5m. The overall TAP budget
is in line with the last Spending Review settlement.</p><p> </p><p>An evaluation of
TAP is being commissioned to understand how to improve programme delivery and the
impact the scheme has on businesses and the wider economy. This will inform future
budget allocations.</p>

<p>The Department for International Trade has commissioned a new Client Survey that
measures the quality and impact of DIT’s products and services. As part of this, satisfaction
scores will be produced for the Tradeshow Access Programme with the intention to publish
the first findings in early 2020.</p>

<p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is taking a number of positive actions to make it
easier for smaller companies to do business with defence, for example launching sub-contract
advertising on our online portal and engaging more regularly with smaller businesses
to help understand the challenges they face. We are also introducing new measures
to ensure prime contractors' pay promptly and working to improve the pipeline information
that we publish.</p><p>The MOD Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Action Plan 2019-2022
was published in March 2019 and this sets out the actions we are taking in more detail.
It is available at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-small-and-medium-sized-enterprise-action-plan-2019-2022</p>

<p>The Government has made it clear that any future trade deal with the US must work
for farmers, food manufacturers and UK consumers as well as protecting the UK’s high
standards of food safety, animal welfare and environmental protection.</p><p> </p><p>The
existing food safety provisions regarding chlorine and other pathogen reduction treatments
for poultry will be transferred into UK law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act.
Without exception, imports will continue to be required to meet the UK’s food safety
standards.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent
assessment he has made of the potential effect on (a) the poultry meat sector and
(b) consumers of the importation of poultry washed with (i) chlorine and (ii) other
antimicrobial washes from the US.

<p>We are committed to maintaining our rigorous standards on animal welfare and food
safety after Brexit - high standards and high quality are what our domestic and global
customers demand, and that is what we will provide.</p><p> </p><p>The existing food
safety provisions regarding chlorine and other pathogen reduction treatments for poultry
will be transferred into UK law by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act.</p><p> </p>

<p>Ministers have regular meetings with other ministers on a range of subjects. The
Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England (their Executive Agency,
who offer independent scientific advice) lead on health issues for Government.</p><p>
</p><p>Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for advising Government on the public
health aspects of exposure to radio waves, including those from mobile phone base
stations and other radio transmitters in the environment. Central to this advice is
that exposure to radio waves should comply with the guidelines published by the International
Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP); who are formally recognised
by the World Health Organisation (WHO).</p>

<p>Ministers have regular meetings with other ministers on a range of subjects. The
Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England (their Executive Agency,
who offer independent scientific advice) lead on health issues for Government.</p><p>
</p><p>Public Health England (PHE) is responsible for advising Government on the public
health aspects of exposure to radio waves, including those from mobile phone base
stations and other radio transmitters in the environment. Central to this advice is
that exposure to radio waves should comply with the guidelines published by the International
Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP); who are formally recognised
by the World Health Organisation (WHO).</p>